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What are the actual reasonable outcomes here:
I think what would be interesting is to get everyone who self hosts this do part of the indexing. As in, find some way to split the indexing over self-hosted instances running this search engine. Then make sure "the internet" is divided somewhat reasonably. Kind of what crypto does, but instead producing the indexes instead of nothing.
That would give random strangers (at least partial) control over what is indexed and how and you'd have to trust them all. I'm not sure that's a great idea.
There areways to get around this. Give every indexing job to multiple nodes, decide the result by majority vote between those nodes and penalize (i.e. exclude) nodes that repeatedly produce results that don’t match the majority. Basically what distributed research has done for decades.
Getting the details of such a system right wouldn’t be easy but far from impossible.